Imaginative play for Year 2 this week in Forest School. The children decided that the rope lines, created by year 6, would become a laser quest. Can you get across without touching the lines? Once they’d mastered this, they then challenged each other to get across without touching the ground, no eas
Learning about fire is a important life skill. From choosing where to position a fire, to using fire pit, fire safety and methods of ignition, from fireside activities and crafts, to extinguishing it at the end of the day, the children will be taught these skills during their Forest School sessions.
Lots of excitement and anticipation in Year 2 this week to see if there was more evidence of Sprites on our site. You may not know much about Woodland Sprites, they are clever little creatures who are guardians of our natural world. From the trees above to the soil below and everything in between.
In class the children have been learning about the Holi Festival of Colour, today’s exploration activity encouraged them to really observe the nuances of colour in the natural world. They set off in teams, each with a collecting bag containing a selection of paint colour cards, the challenge, to see
Children in Year 4 spent the morning in our Forest School den building in the trees. Previously they have created different styles of natural shelter, including many free standing variations. Using existing trees as a start point and the natural topography of the land, encourages a different set of
There have been some strange goings on in our Forest School today. Early this morning Miss Rowe was doing her usual site check, making sure everything was ship-shape ready for the children. When she came to the fire-pit a little forest feast had been laid out…..berries and seeds, some little biscu
Wild winds this afternoon but we are lucky to still have some sheltered woodland to explore. Some children tried a quick build challenge to make a house for a mouse. You can see that their builds are starting to take shape. The children are now beginning to plan ahead and select materials with more
During our PE lessons this term, the boys and girls in Year 3 have been learning tennis skills. The children have practised bouncing and catching a tennis ball and worked on passing to a partner over the net. After this, the children learnt how to hold a tennis racket correctly. They developed their
Year 3 took to the woods to get creative, on a glorious day with no wind. There was small construction going on in the willow room. Playing in and building dens and some nest building too. While all that busy stuff was going on some other children started to create a placement art gallery on the hil
Children in Year 4 spent a challenging morning in our Forest School trying all sorts of different activities. As we’ve all been taking part in the RSPB Big School Birdwatch Miss Rowe thought the children may like to try their hand at nest building, bird style. That means one-handed! The children cou
